Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

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ToroidalBoat said:
bad news: GMail is dropping support for plain HTML in January 2024, and they've already made it harder to access the HTML version.

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I fucking hate the antichrist. Why, of all things, get rid of something that just works and needs pretty much no maintenance to keep it working. I only want to open my damn mail in plain text, not a JavaScript ridden equivalent of a NASA space shuttle control interface.

All the more reasons to use a standalone mail client, I guess.
 
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Spruce Supremacist said:
Why, of all things, get rid of something that just works and needs pretty much no maintenance to keep it working.
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Computer hardware doesn't seem to be changing as much anymore, but software seems to be growing ever more bloated.

Even those "verify you are human" Cloudflare pages seem to be requiring later browsers to use now.
 
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Solomon Bundy said:
I thought this thread was titled "Madame Web Woes" and I was like, "50 pages, already? It's just a bad trailer!"

Anyways, for content: 47%+ of the internet is bots. It's completely insane and self-destructive.
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I was surprised to find out.

Look at product reviews or reddit replies.
 
Fabio Socialist said:
Few things make me madder at the Internet than seeing "Please enable Javascript to use this site" when literally all I wanted to do was read words.
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Then you activate javascript and see 40 scripts running on a page that is a three paragraph news article with no pictures of videos. 30 of the scripts are from ad or tracking servers. 8 of them are cross scripts from social media platforms. And then 2 for the actual site and its content. Forcing you to play wack-a-mole with the site to find out which script delivers the comments section or the actual article or text and which ones are ads or tracking sites.
 
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Spruce Supremacist said:
I fucking hate the antichrist. Why, of all things, get rid of something that just works and needs pretty much no maintenance to keep it working. I only want to open my damn mail in plain text, not a JavaScript ridden equivalent of a NASA space shuttle control interface.

All the more reasons to use a standalone mail client, I guess.
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Lone Wandering Courier said:
There is always Thunderbird, which I have been using for years.
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now they ruined thunderbird with shitty modern UI and if you know mozilla they will drop support for the old interface
 
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Then you activate javascript and see 40 scripts running on a page that is a three paragraph news article with no pictures of videos. 30 of the scripts are from ad or tracking servers. 8 of them are cross scripts from social media platforms. And then 2 for the actual site and its content. Forcing you to play wack-a-mole with the site to find out which script delivers the comments section or the actual article or text and which ones are ads or tracking sites.
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Something like uMatrix does wonders for that since the garbage hellscripts are usually all third-party. The downside is that third-party blocking by default tends to break way more sites than blocking cookies or JS and requires more technical knowledge to correct, so you'll spend more time writing your whitelist.
 
my Adblock extension is now showing me popup ads for itself.

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Youtube now removed the option to hide shorts from your feed. They are also forcing channels to upload shorts because its now required for monetization to have a minimum ammount of hours watched in that format. I hate tik tok and i hate youtube's "we have tik tok at home" even more.

Also fuck the trillion automated channels that pop up in those awful recommendations the algorithm makes. Now they put channels with little or no views in your timeline and most of those are just AI trash with robot voices reading chatgtp bullshit. Either that of tranny vtubers , seeing V-tubers on my timelines pisses me off a lot and they keep coming back no matter how much i click "i am not interested"
 
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Stephanie Bustcakes said:
my Adblock extension is now showing me popup ads for itself.
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Lots of extensions change ownership and then begin attacking the users. Some extensions will send you popups or force tabs to open in your browser. Others that are supposed to block ads or scripts will secretly install a whitelist of sites that companies will pay them to unblock without knowledge of the user. And not a single browser will stop this from happening from Chrome to Firefox.

Adblock is a notorious offender. It will often force a new tab to open to spam you with advertisements. It will not actually block all sites by default anymore. And if you disable the extension because the forced popups are annoying you then you lose all of your custom 'blocked elements' and will need to transfer them over to some other blocking extension manually.
 
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